Every day we post a Thought for the day written by someone within the circuit. Some are very light hearted and some are very deep theologically with all bases between covered.
We hope these will encourage, uplift and make you reflect but most of all we hope you enjoy reading these small daily snippets and take some inspiration on your daily journey
“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go” (Genesis 28:15)
Thought for the day – Thursday 15th April 2020 How spiritual are you ? How much do you love God ? In effect, these questions ask the same thing just using different words. Your spirituality is measured by how much you love God and want to live your life in accord with his teaching. Consider…
Thought for the day – Wednesday 15th April 2020 It’s often said that we are living in strange times. There are times in our lives even in ‘normal’ times when we go through difficulties, when it’s hard to keep going, when we may wonder ‘Where is God in all of this?” It can be hard…
Thought for the day – Tuesday 14th April 2020 Isn’t it fantastic the way the country is pulling together to heap their praises on all the care staff who are working tirelessly, often at risk to their own health, in their vocation to use all their skill and energy to save lives and restore health. …
Thought for the day – Monday 13th April 2020 In these unprecedented times…. This journey through Holy Week is a journey of discovery in a totally unfamiliar world – at least for most of us. Now we experience what those on the margins – those with severe disabilities or illness, the migrant, the refugee, the…
Thought for the day – Easter Sunday 12th April 2020 One of my favourite resurrection narratives in the New Testament is the passage in John’s Gospel (John 20:19-29) which depicts the events towards the end of the first Easter Sunday. After the momentous events of that early morning in the Garden Tomb it appears that…
Holy Saturday Thought for the day – Saturday 11th April 2020 Mary Magdalen hadn’t slept at all last night, she’d been with the women at the cross and witnessed his final minutes of life, she knew that Jesus was dead, she’d experienced the death of people she’d loved before, who hadn’t? but this was different,…
Thought for the day for Good Friday by Anna Howes and Stuart Warman
Maundy Thursday Thought for the day – Thursday 9th April 2020 Judas was starting to get frustrated, Palm Sunday had been everything he’d been waiting for, a lifelong Jew, he’d waited for the Messiah to come so that he might overthrow all that was evil in the world and that all men might worship God…
Thought for the day – Wednesday 8th April 2020 These are unprecedented times. Even so, as an avid lover of hymns I find I am still inclined to hum (and sometimes sing out loud) hymns routinely. I have so many favourites, but if I really had to pick a favourite it would be the hymn…
Thought for the day – Tuesday 7th April 2020 Nathanael lay in his bed trying to make sense of what had happened yesterday. Jesus had led them to the temple, which was no surprise really, they were Jews and this is the Passover, worshipping made sense as they were in the Holy City, he’d not…